The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-05-19
The Woman's Column

Georgia chartered and built the first woman'>
college in the United States.
lila Wheeler Wilcox gives away in charity
AL ihe money she gets for her poems
\ Niece eff Martha Mitchell. of V.ssar, is one
OF the proof-readerS on the new Century die
ti0nary.
l lie Connecticut Ilol;,e of Representatives
has passed Il bill making women eligible to cleo
ton on district school boards.
Miss Catherine Wolfe helped a number of
iris through Na,Saf, without letting them
know from whom the motley came.
The Bombay Gazette has broken the lee bv
employing sixteen A!@o-lndian girls as com
posters and Wo:naii - proof-rcadcr.
y elias Of seven young women vii! graduate
next ihonlii iron! the tiaining->rhool for nurses
al tile Buffalo N. " General Hospital. Six
Young women received their diplomas in JAN
'iafy. Trained nursing is growing in favor rs
| Il profession for women.
About fifty women have this wear been elect
Ell as school super. >or> in Maine. The State
superintendent OF schools tc>tiieS that women
On school committees are rcforncr>. and can be
counted Oh to favor the most enlightened ways
o. dealing with teachers and scholars.
Many Of the arguments that are used against
letting Wolncn Vote were used against lettin.
women enter the professions and with more
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man, she '.crtailllN has not capacity enough to
practice law or medicine. or 10 preach the COS
pei.
\ new trade for women is that of ..nninhbor-
hood darncr" TIN. woman who follows If h.S
Tor her customers Il dozen or twenty house
holds. each Of which she visits weekly. and
spends a few hours in doing uptle family darn
r. ~ on' 1m Is iieL are Systeha
rl,,ir ~ r. - y. ,onF' " .hts1
NAM Oh ffitir'i! 'ice anu
o., '"i'n't' l!'llr>. ne Pay Is larry GOOD.
tn is ] h'tt;'ci - s!ea. nie>sihS
" re- WIN '"i Se i''i'i''eS'
Mrs. MARY t. Barr. who i. coming into mo-
tce through! her scotch dialect stories hcoan
10 write WHEN She was tiltv-four. She lost her
husband. who was Military Governor of T,yas
and seven children. All within twenvfn,,r
huur>. from yellow fever. and fo,nI herself
left with four littI. ones. and with only fifty
| cents in her rurkct-book. She went 10 New
York an,! became a uoyerncsS IN the family Of
| one of 4. r. Stewards nartrcr. Her first t.l.
| WAS writer, to crafty 1he vhm of her r,nrlny-
| er. 1t was promptly accented by n ,l,hlishrr.
| and since then She la, rome on writin,r with
growing -lcce->.
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r., -hais l''i'i-li'si Is one o. The most sue
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''' ~: IS OF o decorative art. Vanderbilt once
| i'"h' hui ''",uoo iof ill'enllhG new kind OF
t'F.srH hah%lh-s Tor MS houses. She suppii-
90 'he aeSi@hs lof me >aned-ga>s window
lu'' erec5ch IN Grace hurch, n. ..represcnt-
~ JACOB Dream. No piece OF cathedral art
ii,''i rI'i hcth lli'ri'>led III TINS country to a
Mo!iiiii' "'i iieT d.SlGhs We're 50 obviously the
oeei ,i''' pie1t'tcii. was broken through: The
IN "SreHi'f3 ana descending the ladder are
i '.i. - ne ai. NiIor' aih the window ranks
Win the best 0: mor'lefn decorative work.
Hon. u Harlan in ~. s,oo,,, i, 4,, Dam,
SyIyan Sp,t, n,a,i, f,,lin.t -. .',e - t
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| Tho ti,nn WIS .pt NAT l,.,,,, .;,,.. .ho. :.
Wa. thought il voulI rr,,r DO r. ivo = ,r;tn
.I.'f i, H. '., y: y" ~ ~ Winter
She wond uevr, IL, M f., ;',I.'. ,
She might teach u >mil school lIr;n,. H.. sim.
mar , ,'11' n"'i''- 'l' sum
ijftie rh;Ilrr I'M, . ,tnnI ~ .i,, . ui
would hive ia I Imio,.J e. ~, =, ,,'',.
months .nf same ~ r. inro v.h " 'i't,
,io','!' tt', so'lit oi US mere: VINO are i!ii.e
or. ~ M ,r,d the .,o rn.,, No. Il, i:,t ',
inc Of The term With hi. hnndia If rnI, WITH
h.. ,t M over Ills dlsk >. , tarrar ~ ali ,h =,
uu,il-. ANA INV az r,,l ~, ,a,,iI w. ~
some f,III win The how ,hn b.d an,' t ;',
leader in n;ifhif fine Inst ,n..iop ~ ,i.,t -,
tha teacher I,,i+ v hin, tLr,, ~ H., ~,
| first Iay. ana linus Secure the .,ovnrnmnnt nf
the >cI,ool for the form Ent tb LINZ nf '.o Va
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